Some Wasps

Spinola’s Mason Wasp/Ancistrocerus spinolae

Walden’s Potter Wasp/Ancistrocerus waldenii drinking from the pool covering.

Bramble Mason Wasp/Ancistrocerus adiabatus exploring a not-deep-enough recessed screw hole.

Parancistrocerus genus

Ammophila

Therion circumflexum (?)

Dolichomitus irritator, maybe. All the above seen in Staatsburg, NY.

This just in: my first sighting of Sceliphron curvatum, the Asian Mud-dauber, was on Sunday in Bay Ridge. (And not very satisfactorily photographed.) They seem to have been first reported in Quebec in 2013 and are making their way around. Mine is the second or third iNaturalist observation for Brooklyn (Kings Co.), and hence Long Island. Question of invasiveness remains open.